Now, a court over there has awarded a six year old boy, who was wrongly accused of stealing a bag of crisps from Lidl, £7,500 in damages for defamation of character.
A six year old. Defamation of character. A six year old. Character. Defamation. Of.
He’s fucking six. Six year olds don’t have characters capable of being defamed, the last time I checked.
In further madness, the Lidl employee grabbing his arm apparently constituted false imprisonment and assault.
I just don’t even know any more. The BBC have more.
Went for a wander around, as I hadn’t been out the house in a wee while. There’s nothing particularly spectacular but still, the shots are located hither.
This, in case your name’s Steve Love and you’re wondering where it is, is on the way up to Devil’s Dyke.
Global warming. Maybe it’s happening, maybe we’re the prime cause of it, maybe it’ll eventually lead to some species facing extinction.
Nuclear weapons. Let’s imagine their proliferation, that more nations/factions seek access to them, and the possibility they’ll be used again, making large swathes of our planet uninhabitable for a very long time.
Overpopulation. The fact that we continue to spread over the Earth, destroying the natural habitat of any lesser beings that happened to be there before us.
Waste produce. Regardless of global warming being man-made or not, a large volume of pollutants do make their way into the environment and do royally fuck things up in certain parts of the world.
These problems and more, how do we solve them?
How do we stop ourselves from ruining the planet?
According to The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement we do it by not having kids so the human race goes extinct and life on this planet can carry on unimpeded by our viral, self-destructive ways.
There is a guy walking around Cannes, right now*, with a webcam strapped to his head, letting everyone on the internet instruct him what to do via Twitter.
Sounds fun; is fun. Hearing a guy say “Steve Griffiths I’m standing in this fountain just for you” as he stands in a fountain, mere moments after you tweeted him “jump in the pool like a duck” is pretty damned amusing.
To see just how seriously he’s taking it, see that tattoo on the left? Twitter told him to do it. He went to a tattoo parlour, sat down, and streamed himself getting Twitter’s Fail Whale (chosen by the people watching/tweeting him), along with the names of a couple of those tweeting, tattooed permanently onto his arm. For real-reals.
Pretty damned seriously, then.
Before you get too excited, he’s obviously not doing anything illegal, or too lewd, which is a shame, but let’s be realistic here.
Other amusing things people have had him do include:
Dance around in the street
Hug and kiss random people
Go up to someone at a restaurant and ask to try their meal
Jump in a fountain (hehe)
Spin around until he’s dizzy
And this was just the first afternoon. Check his shit out, it might be funny.
If you’ve made it this far, here’s the back story: his name’s David Perez, he works for an ad agency called Leo Burnett, he wanted to go to the Advertising Festival in Cannes, his boss said “Ok you can go but you have to wear a webcam and let Twitter tell you what to do”, he decided to do it, and he’s there doing it now*. Not quite sure why his boss wanted him to do it, but they’re an ad agency so who knows.
*That is, if you’re reading this between June 21st and 26th 2010, and if he’s awake of course. He’s in Cannes so that’s an hour ahead of UK time.
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Global warming. Maybe it’s happening, maybe we’re the prime cause of it, maybe it’ll eventually lead to some species facing extinction.
